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Main Dish Recipes

Main dishes are - for obvious reason - the main attraction of any meal.  But that doesn't mean they have to be intimidating, or overly complex.

Here are the usual links to some of the superstars of my favorite main dish recipes.

Main dish recipes can be vegetarian like:

  • Easy Red Lentils and Rice - my absolute favorite comfort food and so easy to make.
  • Tofu Coconut Green Curry - Serious yum power
  • 13 Bean Soup - Simple, Affordable, Nourishing

My favorite main dish recipes that center around chicken, beef, pork, lamb, and seafood:

  • Buttery Shrimp with Worcestershire - not the easiest but definitely not the hardest but oh so worth it!
  • BBQ Oven Baked Beef Short Ribs - Takes a long time to cook but so easy to make!
  • Chicken and Stewed Tomatoes - Comfort food delishness.
  • My Mama's Homemade Pork Green Chili - So good the next day!
Side view of wood bowl of chicken soup with egg noodles, carrots, and peas.

Easy Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup with Egg Noodles

Close Up of Sauteed ground pork and veggies stuffed in a lettuce wrap and topped with orange zest.

Healthy Asian Pork Lettuce Wraps

Beef Bolognese on a white plate with a plate . Close up. Parmesan Cheese garnish on plate in background.

Traditional Beef Bolognese

Top down view of white plate with rice and red curry garnished with sliced green onions and green herbs. Silverware on the side. Close up.

Roasted Mashed Eggplant Tomato Curry with Rice

Beef and bean chili in a large brown bowl with a small wood bowl of chili with grated chatter and a spoonful of sour cream.

Easy Beef and Bean Chili

Spicy Red/Brown Chicken Drumsticks On A White Plate surrounded by celery and with with a white blue cheese dipping sauce in a bowl

Oven Baked Buffalo Chicken Drumsticks

4 pieces (3 ribs each) of Cooked Baby Back Ribs With BBQ Sauce Broiled On with a knife and small black bowl of bbq sauce on a wood cutting board (3 eaten bones in the back). Side view. Horizontal picture.

Easy Oven Baked BBQ Baby Back Ribs

Browned sausage meatballs in a tomato sauce with olives and capers. Close up.

Sausage Meatballs with Puttanesca Sauce

Top view of bowl of beef stew with green olives, carrots, green chilis, garlic, and tomatoes. Salt shaker, spoon, and bottletop drink on the side.

Vaquero Beef Stew - Cowboy Stew

Top down view of pasta on a white plate. Pasta is filled with ingredients and has lemon zest and parsley on the top.

Mushroom Zucchini Pistachio Pasta with Parmesan

Lamb & Barley Stew in Wooden Bowl with spoon sticking out. Top view.

Lamb And Pearl Barley Stew

Pureed Black Bean Soup In a Brown Bowl (Side Angle) with A spoon with an orange container of lime wedges.

Easy Blended Black Bean Soup

Chicken Stew with Potatoes & Sliced Green Olives In A Red Enameled Cast Iron Pot

Fricase de Pollo - Cuban Style Chicken Stew

Side view of pan seared white fish with red romesco sauce drizzled on the top. Fish spatula on plate.

Pan Fried Grouper with Romesco Sauce

Top view of white plate/bowl of white rice covered in a yellow curry sauce with cubed tofu, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, and peas. Fork and spoon on napkin on side.

Tofu Vegetable Coconut Curry with Rice

Top down view of a large white bowl of bean soup in broth with bay leaves on top. Close up.

Simple Vegetarian Black Eyed Peas and Rice

Sauteed Shrimp In A Red/Brown Butter & Worcestershire Sauce In A White Bowl with a Spoon.

Buttery Shrimp with Worcestershire Sauce

5 Seared Scallops In A Bowl With a Light Layer Of Roasted Sweet Potato Puree

Scallops In Roast Sweet Potato Puree

Baked Mediterranean Frittata in Oval Baking Pan with cherry tomatoes, spinach, eggs, feta, capers, and olives

Healthy Oven Baked Mediterranean Frittata

Roasted butternut squash on top of arugula on a white plate. Garnished with chopped walnuts and red pomegranate kernels. side view.

Roasted Butternut Squash Arugula Salad

Chicken & Sausage Gumbo in a white shallow bowl with sliced okra.

Creole Chicken and Sausage Gumbo

Creamy Orange / Yellow Squash soup in a white bowl. White napkin, spoon and black pepper shaker on the side. Top view.

Simple, Easy, and Hearty Butternut Squash Soup

Close up of elbow Macaroni & Yellow Cheddar Cheese Pie topped with golden buttery breadcrumbs.

Southern Baked Macaroni and Cheese Pie

Top view of ¾ white deep plate with wild rice, chunks of roast sweet potatoes and chickpeas. Topped with cilantro and toasted coconut flakes.

Sweet Potatoes and Chickpeas In Coconut Milk Over Rice

Pork Chop on a plate with a green lettuce salad. Chunky Portobello Mushrooms on top of chop. On a white plate with a red glass of wine.

Pork Chops w/ Portobello Mushrooms

Whole Roasted Turkey Breast in Gravy On White Platter

Easy Roasted Turkey Breast

Yellow Spaghetti Squash "pasta" with green kale and parmesan pesto with toasted squash seeds on top. Ona white plate with black rim.

Baked Spaghetti Squash with Kale Pesto

1 oven browned Quiche on white towels in a vertical shot. side view

Easy Quiche Lorraine (Bacon and Swiss)

Whole golden brown chicken pot pie with one slice missing. Pie slice on white plate in background.

Easy Chicken Pot Pie (Chicken Thighs)

Thin sliced flank steak on a wood cutting board with a knife. Meat is pink in the middle.

Easy Marinated Lemon Dijon Flank Steak

Top view of cooked Broccoli and Swiss Cheese Quiche with a browned crust.

Easy Broccoli and Swiss Cheese Quiche

Top view of white plate with Cranberry relish on the bottom and pan fried chicken on top. Fork, knife and napkin on the side. Bowl of mashed potatoes above plate.

Easy Pan Seared Chicken with Cranberry Sauce

Side View of 13 bean soup in a red tomato sauce on a white wood table. side view. white bowl. Thyme sprigs in the back ground

Simple Vegetarian 13 Bean Soup

White Shallow Bowl Filled with Tomato Based Red Stew with carrots, shrimp, and clams.

Classic Cioppino (Fish Stew)

Half a delicata squash hollowed out and roasted and stuffed with parsley and pistachio pesto and garnished with pomegranate kernels on a white plate with orange sauce.

Festive Vegetarian Stuffed Delicata Squash

White bowl of tomato based soup with sausage, carrots,arugula, white beans, and garnished with thin slices of Parmesan cheese. Spoon and baguette on the side.

Minestrone Soup with Sausage and Cannellini Beans

Chicken breast with Mozzerella broiled on over a bed of spaghetti with marinara. 2 white plates. Basil Garnish.

Italian Stuffed Chicken Breast Cacciatore

Mushroom Gravy Beef Pot Roast Whole On Wood Serving Platter with Thyme sprig garnish

Pot Roast With Mushroom Gravy

Burrito on a plate cut open to expose black beans, eggs, and cheese. Side of tomato salsa and arugula. Fork and knife on plate.

Freezable Egg and Black Bean Breakfast Burritos

White shallow bowl filled with cooked browned beef, chunks of carrots and potatoes in a beef broth with thyme sprigs on top. Spoon and glass of white wine on side.

Easy Crockpot Beef and Vegetable Stew

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I’m Beckie Hemmerling. I love food and I think of it on a basic level of providing strength & nourishment. Cooking has helped me *try* to figure out life, not just my own, but also other people's. I have cooked through many joys / sorrows and cooking has always been a meditative place through these highs & lows. More background info →

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